Written transcript of the lecture
The Meshkat-e Noor teachings series🌼When Satan gets drunk, he sinks lower🌼
🌼An impure heart is Satan’s tavern🌼
🌸🔆🌿 “Satan’s Breeding Ground”
🌱🔆 Summary with addendum, “Meshkat-e Noor Circle” “Satan’s Breeding Ground” 1401.12.25 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat 110.141(903) 🔆🌱
🌷🔆 ☘️ وَ عَمِّرْنِي مَا كَانَ عُمُرِي بِذْلَةً فِي طَاعَتِكَ، فَإِذَا كَانَ عُمُرِي مَرْتَعاً لِلشَّيْطَانِ فَاقْبِضْنِي إِلَيْكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَسْبِقَ مَقْتُكَ إِلَيَّ، أَوْ يَسْتَحْكِمَ غَضَبُكَ عَلَيَّ.
🌷Satan’s Heaven and Hell🌷
🌹One’s lifetime must be devoted and spent in worship, obedience, and seeking God’s pleasure; otherwise, it will become Satan’s pasture.
🌹A sinner is a hospital, breeding ground, sanctuary, resting place, graveyard, pleasure garden, and paradise for devils.
🌹A corrupt person is a surgeon treating Satan’s wounds, breathing strength into his feeble spirit.
🌹The impious and corrupt are Satan’s sustenance, bread, wine, and salve.
🌹A vile person is Satan’s military base, media outlet, and cultural headquarters.
🌹The chest of a vile person is where Satan’s foot soldiers and senior soldiers are raised.
🌹A vile person progresses from graduating from Satan’s school to becoming Satan’s teacher. At times he teaches Satan; at others, Satan teaches him.
🌹A vile person assists Satan in his innovations and inventions.
🌹The time comes when Iblis is the lesser Satan, and the human being becomes the greater Satan.
🌹A vile person is Satan’s secret, hidden weapon.
🌹The impious are Satan’s devoted servants and his agents of deception in broad daylight.
🌹Human vileness begins when people take Satan as their standard, model, authority, and proof.
🌹Even thoughts of sin must not arise in a person’s heart.
🌹The human conscience, alive to the ugliness of sin, is a painful torment.
🌹The supplication of Imam Sajjad, peace be upon him, has already shown what is necessary for a pure person.
🌹Even dreaming or imagining sin is a disgrace to a person’s spirit and soul.
🌷Satan’s Food and Drink🌷
🌹A vile person is Satan’s grass, bread, water, medicine, treatment, and vitamins.
🌹Soaring to the heights of Imam Ali’s words is the work of God’s chosen servants.
🌹A vile person is Satan’s partner and a stakeholder in his unbelief, idolatry, and abominations.
🌹Through sin, a person falls from the highest rank in God’s sanctuary into Satan’s club.
🌹A sinner’s warm embrace is the finest nursery for Satan, his offspring, and his soldiers.
🌹A vile person becomes Satan’s eye, lookout, microscope, telescope, and scanner, seeing with him what is hidden from sight.
🌹The vile person’s tongue supplies the sounds, melodies, tunes, and music with which Satan deceives people.
🌹A vile person rides the steeds of misguidance to make people’s beliefs go astray.
🌹Satan becomes the vile person’s accomplice, and the vile person Satan’s; they share in abominations and strive to strengthen one another!
🌹The time comes when a vile person can no longer be distinguished from Satan, the accursed.
🌹Beliefs are exposed to the hunt of devils.
🌹The weapons of falsehood and doubt are among the most effective means of destroying convictions.
🌹How often the hunted becomes the hunter.
🌹The networks of the mind and heart are vulnerable to infiltration, seizure, and hacking by devils; one must be on guard.
🌹Controlling the heart, hijacking action, turning things upside down, portraying sacred things as sinful and sin as sacred—all are among Satan’s tools for leading human society astray.
🌹Feeling unworthy in worship is a sign that Satan has gained influence over the workings of the human heart and mind.
🌹Human desire is prey to the hunting of devils.
🌹Replacing noble virtues with vices is a clear sign that Satan rules over human hearts.
🌷The Death of the Hive🌷
🌹When the order of the hive changes, the honeycomb of belief becomes a rubbish heap.
🌹A hive begins to die when its queen dies; likewise, the heart’s order collapses in the absence of the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt.
🌹Without the Qur’an and the Ahl al-Bayt, the heart’s hive dies.
🌹The bees of spirituality in the heart’s hive are the angels of the heart’s realm.
🌹Becoming convinced of falsehood—mistaking it for truth—is the beginning of profound deviation.
🌹Doubting false certainty is a prelude to entering into true certainty.
🌹Taking lies for truth signals that certainty has been turned upside down and the innate order disrupted.
🌹Becoming comfortable with lies signals a change in the human being’s innate nature and structure.
🌷🔆 ☘️ اتَّخَذُوا الشَّيْطَانَ لِأَمْرِهِمْ مِلَاكاً وَ اتَّخَذَهُمْ لَهُ أَشْرَاكاً فَبَاضَ وَ فَرَّخَ فِي صُدُورِهِمْ وَ دَبَّ وَ دَرَجَ فِي حُجُورِهِمْ فَنَظَرَ بِأَعْيُنِهِمْ وَ نَطَقَ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ فَرَكِبَ بِهِمُ الزَّلَلَ وَ زَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الْخَطَلَ فِعْلَ مَنْ قَدْ شَرِكَهُ الشَّيْطَانُ فِي سُلْطَانِهِ وَ نَطَقَ بِالْبَاطِلِ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ[1]
🌼 Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat), 110.141 (903) 🌼
[1] Nahj al-Balaghah (ed. Subhi Salih), p. 53
